THE EARTH IS BLUE AS AN ORANGE (Ukraine Fundraiser)

For those who are unable to join us in person, this film will be available to PURCHASE ONLINE

Saturday March 12 – Sunday March 13 only, with a 48 hour viewing window.

Click the link below.

Vlad Medvedovsky, Founder, CEO of Proxet (operating in Ukraine) will join us via SKYPE beforehand to provide us insights on the war in Ukraine and its impact on the citizens.

Exquisitely shot and bold in its storytelling approach, director Iryna Tsilyk’s documentary follows single mother Anna and her four children as they document their lives under siege in Ukraine.

Eldest daughter Mira dreams of becoming a cinematographer. As bombs descend on neighboring homes, the family construct, act in, and edit stylized scenes of dangerous predicaments they’ve lived to tell. Mira’s re-creations ratchet up the drama, using local soldiers, tanks, and even her own grandmother to tell terrifying tales of survival. Meanwhile, Iryna quietly captures their more quotidian moments during their shoots and in between takes—scenes that include Mira’s siblings squabbling over line readings, cozy dinners by the fire, and Anna’s compassionate gaze as she watches Mira apply to film school.

Eventually, the two projects fuse into a single vision that gorgeously encapsulates the extremes of war, both its explosive trauma and its mundane peripheral existence in everyday life. With miraculous insight, The Earth Is Blue as an Orangeobserves a family—and a filmmaker—cope with war using their cameras, working in tandem to create meaning out of a meaningless conflict.

“Iryna Tsilyk’s beautifully inquisitive film isn’t so much about war as it is about the art born out of war. Perhaps it was only a matter of time before our gaze was directed to the bloodiest corner of East Europe. THE EARTH IS BLUE AS AN ORANGE the first feature documentary from Ukraine to screen at the Sundance Film Festival, is a worthy addition to an elite league headlined by Restrepo, The White Helmets, For Sama and Midnight Traveller”.
– Sundance

“Iryna Tsilyk offers an intimate and surprisingly playful family’s eye view of life in the Ukraine warzone ”
– by Amber Wilkinson, Screendaily

“Iryna Tsilyk’s striking, Sundance-awarded documentary views the War in Donbass through the prism of a Ukrainian family’s own filmmaking process.”
– by Guy Lodge, Variety